Gemma > Gemma's Quotes

“Be it determined, however, that each one this records is given by means of a man who, in line with his personal assertion, become only at one of the islands, and remained there however two weeks, slumbering every night on board his ship, and taking little child-glove excursions ashore within the sunlight hours, attended by an armed birthday celebration.”
― Herman, 1819-1891 Melville, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life

“Nature wanted to show mankind, an irreverent, over-venturesome mankind, just how puny and pitifully helpless a thing mankind really is…”
― Alistair MacLean, HMS Ulysses

“How did my father and a whole generation of Germans fall in behind Hitler’s bullshit, turning some of them into mindless killers who would follow instructions without question?”
― Andrew Turpin, The Last Nazi

“Death has a way of radically altering essential values.”
― Blake Banner, The Dead Cold Series: Books 5-8